Alas, this country I love so much has gone to rack and ruin due to the PC Police and the Health and Safety tossers.

If people started growing spines again and telling these people where to go then we will start to grow again.

Guessing I am a bit older than most in here so have seen days when dustmen used to throw metal bins on their backs to take it to the wagon, only to see the new wave having a hissy fit if the lid of my wheelie bin is open. It make it hard for them to wheel to the wagon.

Agree with what has been said, this is no longer Great Britain but Not So Great Britain....

That's one of the reasons I moved out of the UK 5 years ago!
I remember years ago when I did the military service here in Spain in 1987, the day that I finished it I hopped on the first coach back to the UK, couldn't wait then to get to England, funny how things change!

And here's another thing...I'll bet that your daughter, working her backside off in a care-home is on minimum wage or very close to it, am I right?

My mother and her partner both work in care, work harder than me, my dad, my wife and my brother put together with our desk jobs (basically, I'm a designer), and they get paid a minimum wage for the pleasure. And the care homes rake it in.

That's one of the many things that are wrong with this country, yes, and I am all for any culture being wherever they want to be within legal reason, but even I'm seeing that there is so much PC bull around that it's beyond belief.

My wife's a social worker here and she reported a daughter being beaten savagely by her mother and a suspicion of rape from her brother and child services rejected it because it didn't 'meet their criteria' which is, and I quote (and they don't want you to know this, but you probably do anyway), 'as long as they're in a home and are fed and clothed, that's alright'.

Alas, this country I love so much has gone to rack and ruin due to the PC Police and the Health and Safety tossers.

If people started growing spines again and telling these people where to go then we will start to grow again.

Guessing I am a bit older than most in here so have seen days when dustmen used to throw metal bins on their backs to take it to the wagon, only to see the new wave having a hissy fit if the lid of my wheelie bin is open. It make it hard for them to wheel to the wagon.

Agree with what has been said, this is no longer Great Britain but Not So Great Britain....

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It's the British disease though, isn't it? We're naturally, as a generalisation quite approachable and friendly, so then it extends into a ridiculous amount of political correctness. Now somehow we've got to get out of it...without offending anyone!

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